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Autore |
Fissell Mary Elizabeth |
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Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / / Mary E. Fissell |
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Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Birth customs - England - History |
Childbirth - England - History |
Human reproduction - England - History |
Human body - Social aspects - England |
Human body - Symbolic aspects - England |
Great Britain History |
Great Britain Politics and government |
England Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-276) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Reforming the body -- The womb goes bad -- Protesting and preaching -- Henry Jessey, Sarah Wight, and the struggle to make women's bodies into knowledge -- Culpeper's radical book -- Reforming the family and refiguring the body in the English Revolution -- The Restoration crisis in paternity. |
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